A Large Number of Public Hospitals Begins to Stop Using Consumables!
In March this year, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University said in a circular that at present, the hospital has begun to implement the budget quota management of consumables, which is included in the annual assessment of department construction and development objectives together with the proportion of consumption.
In addition, non price reducing consumables have been stopped. At present, 4 batches of high-value consumables have been stopped.
It can be seen that with the further deepening of centralized purchase, not only the winning price is getting lower and lower, but also the official control of non- winning products is becoming more and more strict.
Some time ago, the latest centralized procurement bidding announcement issued by Yongzhou, Hunan stressed that if enterprises do not participate in bidding, they will be stopped the right of reviewing and hanging on the Internet.
In the recent announcement of Hebei Medical Security Bureau on Soliciting Opinions on the centralized purchase documents of medical consumables issued by Hebei Medical Insurance Bureau, it is also clear that all non selected products will be included in the monitoring and management of medical drugs and devices in Hebei Province. Once the monitoring finds that the minimum purchase quantity of selected products is higher than the minimum purchase quantity of selected products, the procurement will be suspended.
Under such a set of policies, the threshold for products that fail to win the election and do not reduce prices to enter the procurement list of medical institutions is becoming higher and higher.
Small and medium-sized machinery enterprises and dealers are in danger!
It can be predicted that when more and more medical institutions begin to stop using non price reducing consumables, many machinery enterprises can only choose to actively reduce prices in exchange for the market.
It is observed that since January this year, Liaoning Province alone has issued 25 notices of active price reduction of medical consumables, involving 49 enterprises. Lepu, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and other well-known machinery enterprises are among them.
It is conceivable that enterprises’ initiative to reduce prices is bound to gradually become the consensus in the industry. In the face of the decreasing price of medical consumables, all small and medium-sized machinery enterprises have to reduce prices and accelerate the expansion of product lines.
On the other hand, the “floor price” of medical consumables is constantly refreshed. On the premise of ensuring product quality, the price cut by machinery enterprises largely depends on compressing the profits of circulation links. A large number of small and medium-sized dealers with insufficient competitiveness are bound to be eliminated directly under this impact.
Source：Medical Device Dealer Alliance
Editted and translated by： BradyKnows
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